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re: Can a professor have a mandatory lab on fall break?

Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:38 pm to
Posted by Royal
God's Country
Member since Apr 2009
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Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:38 pm to
quote:

Good suggestion on dean's office, a reason I came here


was that not your first thought?
Posted by Lightnin Hopkins
Member since Dec 2013
559 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:40 pm to
No my first thought was not to call the dean, my first thought was to see if anyone else is being forced to go to class over break.
Posted by Janky
Team Primo
Member since Jun 2011
35957 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:41 pm to
So, did you call?
Posted by Lightnin Hopkins
Member since Dec 2013
559 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:43 pm to
Funny story, I'm in the class that's scheduled to meet tomorrow, right now. I just double checked if it was mandatory, prof. chuckled and answered next student's question
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45955 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:44 pm to
quote:

I just double checked if it was mandatory, prof. chuckled and answered next student's question


You just fingered yourself as the rat...
Posted by Lightnin Hopkins
Member since Dec 2013
559 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:45 pm to
If this call goes any way other than the professors, I was always the rat.
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
52112 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:49 pm to
quote:

Funny story, I'm in the class that's scheduled to meet tomorrow, right now. I just double checked if it was mandatory, prof. chuckled and answered next student's question



You are stupid.


No other way of putting it.


What, you honestly expected him to say: "Naw....I was just joking when I set that date."

Or "Nah, I like to set up trips where only a handful show up to."

And all this on top of:

Going to the OT first
Not even thinking of talking with Deans
Waiting till the day before to say ANYTHING.
This post was edited on 10/1/14 at 12:50 pm
Posted by Overbrook
Member since May 2013
6173 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:51 pm to
Tell the dean
Posted by Royal
God's Country
Member since Apr 2009
1011 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:52 pm to
quote:

No my first thought was not to call the dean, my first thought was to see if anyone else is being forced to go to class over break.



Beta
Posted by Catman88
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2004
49125 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:52 pm to
Is the teacher in question a tenured professor?

Makes a huge difference. I know I had Paul Britt one year for Calculus and someone reported a dead week test to the dean on him. He stormed into our class the day of the test and bitched at us for reporting him and that he had tenure and we couldn't touch him. Then proceeded to give us the test and made a comment about making sure it was really hard. Dick.
This post was edited on 10/1/14 at 12:53 pm
Posted by Lightnin Hopkins
Member since Dec 2013
559 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 1:04 pm to
No volvagia, it was a sarcastic remark.
I assure you I understand that this trip is mandatory.
Which is why I started this thread. It was a remark made in jest, to reaffirm his position once more, for the whole class to see his maleficent intention. I see you intend on tearing down my character though instead of addressing the point of the thread (and dare cast the stone of stupidity?) so I must grant you this one reply before I ignore you ad infinitum.
Posted by Lightnin Hopkins
Member since Dec 2013
559 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 1:06 pm to
Yes, its a dual prof. class, and both teachers are highly esteemed in both their field and department.
This post was edited on 10/1/14 at 1:08 pm
Posted by Traffic Circle
Down the Rabbit Hole
Member since Nov 2013
4428 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 1:08 pm to
Just got to man up and take it. Once you graduate that's how it is in the real world, and worse. Get used to it.
Posted by Lightnin Hopkins
Member since Dec 2013
559 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 1:15 pm to
Yeah but this is at a University, the last stronghold for any sort of protest against the tyranny of our elders. I'd love to take the easy way out and just go on the trip, but I can't. I have to stand up for what I believe in, and I believe in getting drunk as frick and doing whatever else I see fit on my assigned days off of school. First they take fall break, then they knock a day off spring break. Pretty soon, everyones accepting less holidays and Hell, by the time my kids are in school they probably won't even get off for New Years.
Posted by Boomtown
Member since Jan 2014
1986 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 1:18 pm to
quote:

he had tenure and we couldn't touch him

Good to see it didn't go to his head.
Posted by LSUBoo
Knoxville, TN
Member since Mar 2006
102196 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 1:19 pm to
You've gotta fight


For your right



To paaaaarrrrrrrrrrrty!
Posted by Traffic Circle
Down the Rabbit Hole
Member since Nov 2013
4428 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 1:25 pm to
quote:

Yeah but this is at a University, the last stronghold for any sort of protest against the tyranny of our elders. I'd love to take the easy way out and just go on the trip, but I can't. I have to stand up for what I believe in, and I believe in getting drunk as frick and doing whatever else I see fit on my assigned days off of school. First they take fall break, then they knock a day off spring break. Pretty soon, everyones accepting less holidays and Hell, by the time my kids are in school they probably won't even get off for New Years.


The sooner you give up, get fat, married, take a sucky job, accept defeat, the better off you will be. All college does is suck the fight out of you so you will conform like the rest of us.
Posted by OneMoreTime
Florida Gulf Coast Fan
Member since Dec 2008
61840 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 1:25 pm to
You are an idiot.
Posted by tracytiger
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2009
3631 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 1:27 pm to
That's some bullshite, Lightning.
Posted by ZacAttack
The Land Mass
Member since Oct 2012
6416 posts
Posted on 10/1/14 at 1:34 pm to
Do it. I had a professor who added an extra class period for graduate students and scheduled it for 7-9 am. When we protested, he said it was his class and could do whatever he wanted and we couldn't touch him he had tenure. He also said we would all fail, and at midterm grades he proved it, the entire class was failing. We got no credits for the extra 2 hours every week. Professors can be a bunch of dicks.
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